That’s a Dysfunctional Business Not a Family
When someone I’m considering working with says, “we’re a family” or anything similar about their business relationships, I start backing away slowly. I’ve almost written this post a few times,…
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A Blue Check On A Pike Warns Us Not To Give Up The Web
The internet, once a hand full of websites, grew rapidly. In July 2008, Google announced it had an index of 1 trillion URLs. Nearly 15 years later, the internet is…
This war correspondent does not exist
Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by widespread interest in real-time news and information on the conflict, and an explosion of Ukraine-themed “news” accounts on social media have…
This city council member does not exist
the regime has no idea that they have awoken a fake Twitter accountAtlanta City Council member Gabrielle Prooth has lived an interesting life. According to the biography on Prooth’s now-suspended…
OpenAI CEO: It's Not Funny That I'm Afraid of the AI We're Creating
Be Afraid The CEO of OpenAI has admitted repeatedly that he’s scared of the tech his company is cooking up — but he doesn’t think you should make fun of him…
BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes
Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard. “I think that there are two…
Add Value, Not Noise: An Orwellian Social Media Post
Seeing engagement bait post in social media groups is common. “Add value not noise” posted in a startup group on Facebook, however, is noteworthy due to the Orwellian level of…
Artists can now opt out of generative AI. It’s not enough.
Text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E are trained on vast amounts of data collected online—including images created by artists, without their consent. In response, artists developed the website Have…
That’s a Dysfunctional Business Not a Family
When someone I’m considering working with says, “we’re a family” or anything similar about their business relationships, I start backing away slowly. I’ve almost written this post a few times,…
OpenAI CEO: It's Not Funny That I'm Afraid of the AI We're Creating
Be Afraid The CEO of OpenAI has admitted repeatedly that he’s scared of the tech his company is cooking up — but he doesn’t think you should make fun of him…